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Hub Cap: What Happened This Week in Teaching and Learning

(Missed a week? Check out our archive here)

We are sending you a recap of the week in all things teaching and learning. These notes will share timely teaching tips, recent pedagogical scholarship, teaching events on and off campus, and Hub blog posts. Use this form to unsubscribe.

Teaching Tips

Changes Now May Help Avoid Burnout Later 

The resources below offer some suggestions that will help you avoid, or avoid worsening, burnout around teaching. Solutions can’t all be on faculty shoulders. As your colleagues have discussed on the Hub Blog, burnout is a collective issue caused by the pressures of higher ed culture. However, there are steps you can take in your teaching strategies to minimize stress.

  • Teaching in Tough Times: How to Counter Languishing and Burnout in Higher Education Rich with reminders to foreground the parts of your teaching that give you joy and ways for you, and your students, to take breaks, including suggestions to drop some assignments or to look at assessments overall to make sure you aren’t “simply collecting items to grade”
  • Why Students Can’t Work on Their Own Part of a Chronicle series about Teaching Gen Z; describes faculty adjustments that could result in less stress for you and also for your overextended students 
  • Protecting Professors: When disruption is perpetual, it’s time to think differently about work Describes some approaches, in particular responses to increasing workloads, to help faculty move past survival mode
  • Tips for Faculty: Dealing with Stress Our own Belen Garcia’s recent blog post that offers substantive resources to contextualize burnout and strategies you can implement this semester for self-care
  • UM's Faculty and Staff Counseling and Consultation Office offers short-term, individual counseling services for personal or workplace issues, available to all staff, faculty, and their immediate adult family members
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Anytime Teaching Resources

As a reminder, university staff, including the Hub, are off work Labor Day weekend. But you always have access to these asynchronous resources to build your classes:

  • You can search the Hub Blog for Teaching Tips or Accessibility or whatever needs you have. Here is an easy way to subscribe to the blog so you don't miss any updates!
  • On the faculty resources page of the Hub’s website, you can find the online course building toolkit or the high impact teaching tips or the workshop archive
  • Another option is to check out the archive of past Hub Caps in case you remember a tip from a past edition that you didn’t have time to implement at that moment
  • Digital Education’s training video channel is up to date with the recordings from all of the Canvas training sessions last week
  • Include the Success at Dearborn link in your syllabus so that students can easily find support for any of their classes

Questions or comments? Carla Vecchiola, cvecchio@umich.edu

Photo by Fritz Jaspers; Teaching Tips and Asynchronous Learning icons by Icons8

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